WRMC Keynote Speaker: Robert Birkby

There Are Lions Out There:
Risk Management in an Age of Challenge

We are excited to announce our keynote speaker for the 2009 Wilderness Risk Management Conference (WRMC), Robert Birkby. Drawing on four
decades of field experience and firsthand knowledge of risk management
strategies employed through the Boy Scouts of America to the world’s
elite mountain guides, Robert Birkby explores the often dramatic
evolution of risk acceptance and management over the last hundred years
and suggests intelligent ways for the industry to prepare for the
challenges of the future.

A longtime backcountry crew leader and
instructor for the SCA, he also works with Berg Adventures
International and has led trips for Mountain Madness. His books include
current editions of The Boy Scout Handbook and The Boy Scout Fieldbook, a biography of climber Scott Fischer entitled Mountain Madness, and Lightly on the Land, the SCA’s manual of trail construction and maintenance.

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